UK customs law update: May 2025

In this recording of the CustomsClear UK roundtable, Dr Ilona Mishchenko, editor of the CCRM Journal, gives customs and trade compliance professionals a concise overview of the key UK trade and customs developments from May 2025.

Topics covered:

• The new UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal and its scope (tariff relief, rules of origin, non-tariff barriers, mutual recognition, digital trade)
• The conclusion of the UK-India free trade agreement
• Other ongoing UK trade negotiations (Japan, Turkey, New Zealand, CPTPP) and preferential tariff updates
• New arrangements under the Windsor Framework for goods movement between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Extended UK and EU sanctions against Russia, including new UK sanctions targets and the oil price cap review
• Updates to UK export controls (Notices to Exporters, licences, Strategic Export Control List)
• Trade remedies: anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese-origin excavators

For a broader overview of the topic, please watch the full recording. The slides are available in the Resources section.

Please note that this summary was generated using AI, based on the recording and available slides.